Whether they’re tracing depictions of the apocalypse from their roots in the ancient Near East to hit anime of the 90s and 2000s, exploring the ways in which certain mecha and magical girl shows equate trauma and heroism, or just trying to figure out why Utena turned into a car, the essays in this collection combine an accessible style with literary analysis to present anime in a new light!

In this series of essays, I examine each book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, upon rereading them a decade after I first fell in love with them as a kid. The essays highlight literary techniques, thematic explorations, and the ideas communicated in these books that have resonated with me from when I first read the series to today.

‘How To Enhance A Positive Life’ speaks about how to make your life more meaningful. It speaks about how to behave patiently in tough times, how to handle and tackle critics and it also reflects how you can be a better person in life and wear smile on your lips with great confidence. It speaks about making relationships more beautiful without any anger and ego.

Ken Baumann explores the classic SNES game’s unlikely origins, its brilliant creator, its madcap plot, its marketing failure, its cult rise from the ashes, and its intersections with Japanese and American culture, all the while reflecting back on the author's own journey into the terrifying and hilarious world of adults.

Steve Dustcircle on politics, religion, health, finance, lifestyle, relationships and more. Steve has been involved with human rights, secular politics, civil freedoms, and religious lines since leaving Christianity. Out of this, came most of these essays and commentary.

Everyone should want to know what is true. And everyone should be curious about the evidence behind what they believe so they can know whether or not it's true. It is to that end that I present this book: a look at the evidence surrounding Christianity, as well as other religions, for the curious reader.

Lady Science is a multifaceted collaborative writing project focused on women in science, technology, and medicine. Our purpose is to highlight women’s lives and contributions to scientific fields, to critique representations of women in history and popular culture, and to provide an accessible, inclusive, and collaborative platform for writing about women on the web.

This little book is a short meander through Zen thought and practice intertwined with a discussion of the novella by James Hilton about an eccentric Oxford don titled "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," interwoven with a discussion of James Hilton's short but remarkable life and the durability of the "Chips" book in its various stage and screen incarnations. Hopefully it will inspire readers to find out more.